Dalehite et al. v. United States

Decided June 8, 1953. Stanley Forman Reed delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 308 · 346 U.S. 15 (1953) · Cited 1,757 times

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How the Justices voted

Decided 4–3.

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Precedents cited

Supreme Court decisions this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases in our collection link through; others are named.

• Feres v. United States · 340 U.S. 135 (1950)
• Spalding v. Vilas · 161 U.S. 483 (1896)
• United States v. Yellow Cab Co. · 340 U.S. 543 (1951)
• United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · 333 U.S. 364 (1948)
• Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. Supermarket Equipment Corp. · 340 U.S. 147 (1950)
• Boyce Motor Lines, Inc. v. United States · 342 U.S. 337 (1952)
• Walling v. Jacksonville Paper Co. · 317 U.S. 564 (1943)
• United States v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. · 338 U.S. 366 (1949)
• Federal Housing Administration, Region No. 4 v. Burr · 309 U.S. 242 (1940)
• A. H. Phillips, Inc. v. Walling · 324 U.S. 490 (1945)
• Perkins v. Lukens Steel Co. · 310 U.S. 113 (1940)
• United States v. Shaw · 309 U.S. 495 (1940)
• Keifer & Keifer v. Reconstruction Finance Corp. · 306 U.S. 381 (1939)
• O'Leary v. Brown-Pacific-Maxon, Inc. · 340 U.S. 504 (1951)
• Brooks v. United States · 337 U.S. 49 (1949)
• Kelley v. Everglades Drainage District · 319 U.S. 415 (1943)
• Louisiana v. McAdoo · 234 U.S. 627 (1914)
• United States v. Spelar · 338 U.S. 217 (1949)
• National Labor Relations Board v. Pittsburgh Steamship Co. · 340 U.S. 498 (1951)

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• Laird v. Nelms · 406 U.S. 797 (1972)
• United States v. S.A. Empresa De Viacao Aerea Rio Grandense · 467 U.S. 797 (1984)
• Indian Towing Co. v. United States · 350 U.S. 61 (1955)
• United States v. Gaubert · 499 U.S. 315 (1991)
• Rayonier Inc. v. United States · 352 U.S. 315 (1957)
• Kosak v. United States · 465 U.S. 848 (1984)
• Ali v. Federal Bureau of Prisons · 552 U.S. 214 (2008)
• Simmons v. Himmelreich · 578 U.S. 621 (2016)
• Dolan v. United States Postal Service · 546 U.S. 481 (2006)
• United States v. James · 478 U.S. 597 (1986)
• Molzof v. United States · 502 U.S. 301 (1992)
• Scheuer v. Rhodes · 416 U.S. 232 (1974)
• Butz v. Economou · 438 U.S. 478 (1978)
• United States v. Mitchell · 463 U.S. 206 (1983)
• Smith v. Wade · 461 U.S. 30 (1983)
• Owen v. City of Independence · 445 U.S. 622 (1980)
• Duke Power Co. v. Carolina Environmental Study Group, Inc. · 438 U.S. 59 (1978)
• Berkovitz v. United States · 486 U.S. 531 (1988)
• United States v. Orleans · 425 U.S. 807 (1976)
• Nixon v. Fitzgerald · 457 U.S. 731 (1982)
• United States v. Muniz · 374 U.S. 150 (1963)
• Gallick v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad · 372 U.S. 108 (1963)
• Logue v. United States · 412 U.S. 521 (1973)
• United States v. Johnson · 481 U.S. 681 (1987)
• Hatahley v. United States · 351 U.S. 173 (1956)
• Smith v. United States · 507 U.S. 197 (1993)
• United States v. Kwai Fun Wong · 575 U.S. 402 (2015)
• United States v. Gilman · 347 U.S. 507 (1954)

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